The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Woodall
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Introduction ... 'The Fire and fuels Extension (FFE) has been developed for 18 of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) variants: Northern Idaho, Kookantl, Central Rockies, Utah, Eastern Montana, Western Sierra, Blue Mountains, Eastern Cascades, Central Idaho, Tetons,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tansey, Gregoire, Binaghi, Boschetti, Brivio, Ershov, Flasse, Fraser, Graetz, Maggi, Peduzzi, Pereira, Silva, Sousa, Stroppiana
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englefield, Lee, Fraser, Landry, Hall, Lynham, Cihlar, Li, Jin, Ahern
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-resolution satellite imagery to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kalkhan, Martinson, Omi, Stohlgren, Chong, Hunter
Investigating spatial relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, and post-fire invasion by exotic plant species through linkage of multiphase sampling design and multiscale nested sampling field plots, pre- and post-fire, can be accomplished by integrating spatial information…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Jin
Quantitative documentation of fire behavior is important in understanding aspects of physical fire behavior. We describe the use of infrared technology to document on-the-ground fire behavior observed during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) was a major project of Canadian Forest Service fire research carried out in collaboration with the Government of the Northwest Territories’ Forest Management Division near the community of Fort Providence from 1995-2001.…
Year: 2001
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ohmann, Pierce, Gregory, Wimberly, Fried
Presentation given at the Joint Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, April 2004.
Year: 2004
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
From the text...'An inventory or estimate of total statewide (or some other geographically distinct unit) annual emissions of criteria pollutants is a necessary part of understanding the burden on the air resource in an area and taking appropriate control actions. Emission…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riebau, Fox
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
Fire effects are modeled for a variety of reasons including: to evaluate risk, to develop treatment prescriptions, to compare management options, and to understand ecosystems. Fire effects modeling may be conducted at a range of temporal and spatial scales. First-order fire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hély, Flannigan, Bergeron, McRae
Spring and summer simulations were carried out using the Canadian Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) and U.S. BEHAVE systems to study the role of vegetation and weather on fire behavior in the mixedwood boreal forest. Stands at Lake Duparquet (Quebec, Canada) were characterized as…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loveland
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schroeder, Perera
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Stocks
The 22nd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference featured a special session on selected aspects of the wildland fire research carried out during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), co-chaired by M.E. Alexander of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and R.A.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ringvall, Stahl, Teichmann, Gove, Ducey
Point relascope sampling and transect relascope sampling were recently proposed as methods for the inventory of downed coarse woody debris. By only counting logs with a relascope device, the total length squared (with point relascope sampling) or the total length (with transect…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Mantgem, Schwartz
We subjected 159 small ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. & C. Laws.) to treatments designed to test the relative importance of stem damage as a predictor of postfire mortality. The treatments consisted of a group with the basal bark artificially thinned, a second…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Queen
Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property. Models are also used to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Congalton
Today, validation or accuracy assessment is an integral component of most mapping projects incorporating remotely sensed data. Other spatial information may not be so stringently evaluated, but at least requires meta-data that documents how the information was generated. This…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bobbe, Lachowski, Maus, Greer, Dull
The use of information based upon remotely sensed data is a central factor in our 21st Century society. Scientists in land management agencies especially require accurate and current geospatial information to effectively implement ecosystem management. The increasing need to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Conard, Hartzell, Hilbruner, Zimmerman
Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arner, Woudenberg, Waters, Vissage, MacLean, Thompson, Hansen
Procedures to assign stocking values to individual trees, and forest type, stand size, and stocking class to all Forest Inventory and Analysis plots nationwide are presented. The stocking values are assigned using species specific functions of diameter developed from normal…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rosner
Black spruce, Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P., in Alaska is largely overlooked in terms of growth and yield research because of its small size and slow growth. Growth and yield information is therefore limited or nonexistent. This study developed the first polymorphic site index (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Jandt
During the summer of 2000 and spring of 2001 Alaska Fire Service (AFS) completed three hazard fuel break projects on military owned lands adjacent to three residential areas (Shannon Park, Hamilton Acres, and Clear Creek Subdivision West). Shaded fuel breaks were created to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
St. John, Alexander
'Understanding the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System' is the latest CDROM-based wildland fire training course produced by Alberta's Hinton Training Centre in concert with Christie Communications to utilize interactive multimedia technology (Alexander and others 2002). The course,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES